Our suggestions are: Drink mostly water. Some alcohol, coffee and other beverages are fine. You can find a study to show that everything either prevents or causes cancer – alcohol and coffee included. But our take is that the weight of evidence supports including moderate consumption of most beverages. Treat all beverages with calories in them as you would alcohol. You can have them because you like them, but you shouldn’t consume them as if you need them.

Tim is passionate about fitness and health. Combining his love of Martial Arts and Fitness, Tim founded FunFit: Functional Fitness & Self Defence Centre in 2008 and from 2012 has been a student of Nutrition. Eat Real Food is Tim's vision (with help!) to better inform people about healthy food choices. With so many messages out there (often conflicting), Tim thought "wouldn't it be great if there was a site that people could go to that cut through jargon and marketing-speak and just made it easier to make healthy choices?" Enter Eat Real Food. Be warned: Tim is (in)famous for good information and bad jokes. He may also overuse parentheses.

I've been interested in human health for a long time now. I once heard Dr James Chestnut say in relation to health "It's not bad genes, bad germs or bad luck. It's how you Eat, Move and Think". I couldn't agree more. The search for fuelling myself for optimal performance started with high school sports and has never really stopped. Books were read, seminars and workshops were attended, naturopaths were consulted. I don't even want to calculate how much I've spent in time and money on this topic. The thing about nutrition is that there are an awful lot of different opinions and almost everyone claims "scientifically validated".

In 2002 some friends and I opened a health food shop. 10 years later we have 8 shops scattered around Sydney. It was a great learning ground for finding out what's good and what's just good marketing. After a decade being in the health food industry with 100's of naturopathic discussions, 1000's of customer conversations and 1000's more formulation reviews with suppliers, I'd like to share the best of what I've learnt so far.

Tim Brown

Tim is passionate about fitness and health. Combining his love of Martial Arts and Fitness, Tim founded FunFit: Functional Fitness & Self Defence Centre in 2008 and from 2012 has been a student of Nutrition. Eat Real Food is Tim's vision (with help!) to better inform people about healthy food choices. With so many messages out there (often conflicting), Tim thought "wouldn't it be great if there was a site that people could go to that cut through jargon and marketing-speak and just made it easier to make healthy choices?" Enter Eat Real Food. Be warned: Tim is (in)famous for good information and bad jokes. He may also overuse parentheses.

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